Packing underwear for a short trip is easy. You just pack a pair…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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How much underwear to bring on a trip →
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FoamTree: Visualize hierarchical data with a lot of groups
For small-ish amounts of hierarchical data, most JavaScript libraries can handle the load.…
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xkcd: Dominant players in chess and basketball →
I’m pretty sure xkcd is the only one who gets away with showing…
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Birth year and political leanings →
A statistical model, from Yair Ghitza of Catalist and Andrew Gelman of Columbia…
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Drone crash database →
Based on data compiled from a combination of military records, Defense Department records,…
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Percentage of degrees conferred to men, by major
Based on estimates from the National Center for Education Statistics, Randy Olson plotted…
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Employment-to-population ratios →
The Upshot posted an interesting chart that shows changing employment rate by state.…
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A visual analysis of the Boston subway system
For a graduate project, Michael Barry and Brian Card explored the Boston subway…
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NFL players getting bigger
Football players are getting bigger. Noah Veltman, a developer for the WNYC Data…
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A decade of college degrees
North by Northwestern looked closer at degrees awarded by their university over the…
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Distribution of letters in the English language
Some letters in the English language appear more often in the beginning of…
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Tron-style dashboard shows Wikipedia and GitHub streams
As a fun learning exercise, Rob Scanlon made a dashboard that shows GitHub…
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Your income versus what it feels like →
Incomes and the cost of living vary across the country. Some areas might…
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Alcohol consumption per drinker
We’ve seen rankings for alcohol consumption per capita around the world. These tend…
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Views of white Americans
In light of the Donald Sterling brouhaha, Amanda Cox for The Upshot put…
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How people die in America
Matthew Klein for Bloomberg View explored mortality in America through a slidedeck of…
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Five decades of warm and cold weather anomalies
This year’s polar vortex churned up some global warming skeptics, but as we…
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Graph TV shows ratings by episode
Kevin Wu made a straightforward interactive that lets you see IMDB television ratings…